2. About the OC button on the lower part of the motherboard, does it work with the X6 1055T? If so, what OC does it do automatically?

I tried the OC button once and it overclocked my 1055T to 3.5 GHz, BUT the CPU voltage was too high (around 1.46v). I suppose the board did it just to be on the safe side. But manually, I managed 3.92 GHz with 1.42v.

Was it new out of the box? I know there is some deal with a batch of i920s being golden/better and all that jazz too. Could be why maybe? I am not going to lie, I know next to nothing Intel side that isn't in a laptop. I am eyeballing that EVGA X58 Classified though... pretty sexy.

Maybe I will wait for Sandybridge. To be honest I haven't looked up a single thing about it. I will be unemployed after Christmas anyways, so I won't be able to pick it up at launch, but maybe I will get one down the road.

yea I would wait for SB. If nothing else it should drop the i7 prices. 32nm 6 core 12 thread monsters that they will be.

Was not a new chip was i7 920 DO purchased at release. Altho I bet within a week I could have had it @ 4+ Ghz and really rocking some benchmarks. I think the main thing was background tasks going on. I still was not impressed tho.